Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Bradley Wright-Phillips - Page 2
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
At the end of the season, goals - they don't matter.
Sometimes I feel like you can toot your own trumpet too much. I don't really like that.
I am always going to play the same way I always have.
There are strikers all over the world who wouldn't get the goals if they didn't have a creative midfielder or someone that enjoys making assists.
I'm not aggressive enough.
If you score goals, you play. It's as simple as that.
I would hope my children do not like NYCFC.
I would stay up till 3 A.M. playing Xbox or Playstation, go training at 8:30 A.M., go home and sleep and wake up at a crazy time like 7 P.M. and eat something ridiculous like a pizza and then get back on my computer. I was not living right and I wondered why I was not starting games.
I just try to keep my game simple and just get chances. I try to stay on the defender's shoulder, run behind because they don't like it and when I get an opportunity, I shoot. If it goes in one day, it goes in. If it doesn't another day, it doesn't.
The MLS Cup is always the goal. If we don't win that, it's always a disappointment and we haven't won. No matter how well you do in the regular season, it's always seen as a failure.
When you're playing against a European side, you want to show that we can play too. You want to prove MLS is a good league when you're playing against those teams.
I'm not really a big fan of doing interviews.
If you're going to score, you're going to score.
I like to just be humble. The more interviews, the more embarrassed I kind of get.
It's not one or two player that makes you a good team.
The only thing that matters is the MLS Cup.
I like when people talk negative.
I don't want to go back to Europe. I've said that several times.
I grew up watching Arsenal. You don't think you're going to get to play with Thierry Henry. Him breaking my dad's record and now he assists half my goals, it's weird. How'd that happen?
I don't choose to be humble.
I try to do what I can to help the team.
I hate to go into games thinking about goals.
I like to play up front.
I'm awkward under the limelight.
Who doesn't want play with Thierry Henry?
I'd rather go under the radar and win an MLS Cup. I really don't need to be credited.
There's so many things Thierry's taught me, just how you go about being a professional.
If I was younger and I got a new tracksuit, hat, trainers, you couldn't tell me I didn't look good. I thought I was dressed up.
Growing up all I wanted to do was score goals and celebrate with fans - somewhere in that I got lost. Football came second and it shouldn't have.
It's hard in England. If I didn't score for three games, there was the chance someone would take my place or I would be loaned out.
Obviously when you're a striker you need to score. The manager's not going to just play you if you're not scoring.
Anywhere attacking, I will go. Where the manager says to go, I will try and do the job.
We like to play with a chip on our shoulder.
I'm laid back.
Where I'm from, everyone wore tracksuits. If I was younger and I got a new tracksuit, hat, trainers, you couldn't tell me I didn't look good.
I can play wing.
When people say I don't get recognition, it doesn't matter. If I'm scoring, what does it mean? If I'm still playing well and I'm still helping my team, I don't care who thinks I'm amazing or who doesn't.
So much of my game is owed to Thierry. We text regularly.
The Red Bulls have done a good job of challenging me to be a leader, not just be a part of team and score goals, but be someone to be counted on.
Any striker like me that likes to run in behind, they could play with Thierry.